Next-in-Line Effect
The tendency to forget information presented just before your turn to perform, due to cognitive load from preparing.
This bias occurs when you're focused on an upcoming task, causing you to poorly encode information you just heard. Your brain prioritizes rehearsal for your own performance over storing incoming details. For example, in a meeting, you might not remember what the person before you said because you were mentally preparing your own point.
Recognising a definition is not the same skill as spotting it.
Two scenarios from the app, with distractors drawn from the same family of biases — which is what makes them hard.
At a dinner party, a friend recounts a detailed travel story. As Alex thinks about the funny anecdote they plan to share next, the details of the friend's story become hazy.
While waiting for his turn to vote, David tried to remember the propositions on the ballot. When he stepped into the booth, he couldn't recall the details of the last proposition he'd researched.
Biases rarely arrive alone.
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